How To Change The “Maps” of Ghana

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• Ghanaman1 11 years ago

  These mpepefuo are violent and corrupt.

  These mpepefuo are violent and corrupt.

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• 8520 11 years ago

  selling light to benin and togo we Ghanaians suffering stupid mahama

  selling light to benin and togo we Ghanaians suffering stupid mahama

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• Repugnant. 11 years ago

  What do you think kufuor did, sold them his gallons?
  
  We have been selling them electricity since the Busia ill fated regime! Please do not blame Mahama.
  
  This is no unpremeditated prophecy but the rare and precious ignor ...
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  What do you think kufuor did, sold them his gallons?
  
  We have been selling them electricity since the Busia ill fated regime! Please do not blame Mahama.
  
  This is no unpremeditated prophecy but the rare and precious ignorance of previous regimes.

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• Kojo Billy Duncan 11 years ago

  President Mahama will make his mark in Africa's history if he leads ECOWAS to reject the EPA with the EU.

  President Mahama will make his mark in Africa's history if he leads ECOWAS to reject the EPA with the EU.

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• Nii Ashitey 11 years ago

  One would have thought that with the emergence of blocks which share same interests and objectives as a counter to unbridled capitalist ambition and interests, the ECOWAS will take a cue from it and place its interest above a ...
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  One would have thought that with the emergence of blocks which share same interests and objectives as a counter to unbridled capitalist ambition and interests, the ECOWAS will take a cue from it and place its interest above any other consideration. It is because in a united front we are more formidable than when acting alone. That is why the ‘BRICS’ (Brazil, Russia India, China and South Africa) distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional and global affairs cause shivers in the west,the most formidable international block.
  
  Unfortunately for Africa we have been divided against the advice of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and even with our loose regional groupings we have been been baited and seem to be drawn into an unequal arrangement with the EU against our interests and goals. Instead of learning from the BRICS which is one of several new initiatives of different countries in the world to break out of the Northern axis: G12 (G20-G8) west Africa is tying its apron string in a legal arrangement that can only benefit the EU and its Northern axis in the EPA.
  
  One wonders whether the chairmanship of ECOWAS by President Mahama who is charged with the negotiation,is not a poison chalice because the outcome of that negotiation under his watch will be a challenge that will exercise his mind.

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• Kwame 11 years ago

  Nii Ashitey comments only on articles written by Kwarteng. He doesn't find any other article posted on ghanaweb worth his while to comment on...
  
  A bit strange, huh?

  Nii Ashitey comments only on articles written by Kwarteng. He doesn't find any other article posted on ghanaweb worth his while to comment on...
  
  A bit strange, huh?

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  A bit strange? Maybe Francis is the only person who writes something that jives with his own thinking. And you know, Francis covers a lot of territory in one piece.:-) He even managed to sneak the Dagbon conflict into this re ...
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  A bit strange? Maybe Francis is the only person who writes something that jives with his own thinking. And you know, Francis covers a lot of territory in one piece.:-) He even managed to sneak the Dagbon conflict into this re-drawing of the Map of Ghana! Of course, conflictual relationships cannot be a part of that cartography he envisages, so charity begins at home before we deal with the Ivorian designed on our territorial waters. I was wondering why he drew on Boko Haram and not found anything at home to illustrate the discord in the picture, only to discover that he reserved that for me in the end! He didn't disappoint me then!:-)
  
  Anyway, another timely piece when the detractors of Kwame Nkrumah and lackeys of neo-colonial stranglehold are at their apogee trying to tarnish the image and legacy of Kwame.
  
  BTW, it is not all Africans who have 500 years of contact with Europeans to boast of. Only we the coastal pple can claim that dubious accolade, and even that, most were not on equal terms with the whites, being just commoners. The vast majority in the interior of Africa did not have that contact until the late C19th and early C20th when the colonisation process began. The subservient mentality of the bulk of Africa's leadership can be traced to the fact they came into contact with Europeans as weak people. In the French territories, the leadership was derived from mainly the children of liberated slaves. In Ghana, it was a mix of the scions of escaped and liberated/manumitted slaves with the scions of the emerging aristocracy which the colonial order snipped in the bud. The result of this swapping of the traditional leadership for this new crop of out of pocket and land wannabe leaders is a sociological task which hasn't been tackled yet. So, had such people taken over in Botswana, would that country be in the qualitatively better shape in performance as it is today?
  
  Nkrumah, of course, stood out as someone from a royal background too (he was made even a real chief of Nsuem?) but who threw in his lot with the masses, signified by his father's goldsmith background. He committed class suicide, as Amilcar Cabral put it. he therefore transcended his class origins.
  
  Andy-K

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Hello CY.ANDY-K,
  
  How are you doing?
  
  Thanks for your resourceful contribution. Your comments here add a lot to our knowledge. There are more questions our scholars have to help us answer, as your rightly sggest.
  
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  Hello CY.ANDY-K,
  
  How are you doing?
  
  Thanks for your resourceful contribution. Your comments here add a lot to our knowledge. There are more questions our scholars have to help us answer, as your rightly sggest.
  
  Regarding the detractors of Nkrumah, there is not much they can do to destroy his legacy, which is everywhere for all to see. Nkrumah was the best Ghanaian and the best Ghanaian.
  
  Moreover, it strange to see his misinformed truants inventing one theory after another to justify his overthrow when the American government has formally acknowldged to the world why it overthrew Nkrumah via a series of declassified documents.
  
  In fact, scholars (white/black) and the lay public have pored over these documents. I have read a few White-American scholars who have dealt with the American government's overthrow of Nkrumah.
  
  Amy Goodman (in 2007, Democracynow.or) interviewed Gamal Nkrumah on Democracy Now where he discussed the said declassified documents by telling the world where those documents can be found in America in the public space. This information is public knowledge except these magical detractors don't want to read, let alone comment on these documents. Sometimes I see these Nkrumah bashers on Ghanaweb and I hardly read them to the end as what they present is only marketable on Ghanaweb. Serious-mindeded researchers take such writers at face value.
  
  Many well-informed Ghanaian writers have examined these documents even on Ghanaweb. I have personally mentioned Paul Lee's "Documents Explose US Role in Nkrumah Overthrow" in one of my essays yet you have all these snake oil sellers presenting their hearsay evidence to support their cooked-up anecdotes.
  
  Anyway, you have said enought to make my essay complete. My invocation of the "Boko Haram" imagery had more to do with our leaders not doing enough to help our brothers and sisters to bring a clsoure to the Dagbon conflict. I do not want to see this intermittent conflict devolve into something else beyond our ability to contain.
  
  You got the political
  import and the metaphorical connection between the two, the Dagbon conflict and the terrorism of Boko Haram (though the two are entirely different situations)! Those who don't not understand such simple invocative analogies always insult! I hope such readers will go back to read your comments.
  
  That said, thanks for sharing your creative ideas with us. Certaintly they add to our knowledge.
  
  Thanks, CY.ANDY-K.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  My brother,
  
  I am fine but could be certainly better. Just recovered from a severe bout of 'flu. My winter 'flu jab apparently has worn off. Now dealing with a bad back pain! Ouch!
  
  Indeed, the ignorance and the refusal ...
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  My brother,
  
  I am fine but could be certainly better. Just recovered from a severe bout of 'flu. My winter 'flu jab apparently has worn off. Now dealing with a bad back pain! Ouch!
  
  Indeed, the ignorance and the refusal to read of his detractors are simply phenomenal! When I mentioned how Nkrumah was denied defence of his PhD dissertation by the Univ. of Phil, Penns. on ideological grounds, giving Marika's book as ref. in the 90s on Okyeame, I was amazed to see Master/MSc holders denying the existence of even that book, despite providing ISBN numbers! To them, Nkrumah was incapable of getting a PhD! Any evidence suggesting otherwise must therefore be untrue!
  
  No wonder it was headline news in 2002 when the chief who succeeded him appeared before the Reconciliation C'ttee. A Verandah Boy a chief after all? I had June Milne's Kwame Nkrumah: A Biography, pub. in 1999 with me then and nearly went to a radio station with it discuss the issue.
  
  I am afraid, until we publicise massively the facts about Nkrumah, 20 yrs later we'd (if we are still alive) be reading the same distortions and falsehood some pander about him now. You are doing great though.
  
  Andy-K

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Hello Brother,
  
  Well said. The sad part is that give them the books on Nkrumah to read. They will finish reading it and still come back with the same revisionist attitude. How sad!
  
  Like we both have said, we see this ig ...
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  Hello Brother,
  
  Well said. The sad part is that give them the books on Nkrumah to read. They will finish reading it and still come back with the same revisionist attitude. How sad!
  
  Like we both have said, we see this ignorance on Ghanaweb everyday, by writers who think hearsay is a substitute for scholarly research.
  
  The information you you have given us here regarding Univ. of Pennsylvania's refusal to grant him a doctorate is part of the archival history of the university. In fact, any one interested in knowing more about this can go to the university's archive for this information.
  
  Yet Nkrumah's detractors will question this source even after they have been publicly exposed to it. I am not too sure what the problems of his detractors are. Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah has thoroughly examined this very question in appreciable detail in his influential book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics." One Ghanaweb commentator even said Nkrumah was a political, not an intellectual, genius. I have not understood this statement given Nkrumah's well-known intellectual ingenuity.
  
  Anyway, we still have more work to do in preserving the great man's legacy. Those ignorant Ghanaweb writers who want to make careers out of historical revisionism will get no where. Because the world knows where the legacy of Nkrumah stands.
  
  Those of us who are alive will make sure the "illiterate" detractors will not get their way. Milne's book is a beautiful one but the detractors will find fault with it because it speaks the truth about Nkrumah.
  
  Yes, I hardly read Nkrumah's Ghanaweb detractors because I have realized they add nothing substantive to Nkrumah's unimpeachable legacy. Actually, I read them only when a reader writes to tell me to respond to such revisionist articles. Sadly, some of these Ghanaweb writers associate Nkrumah with socialism and communism when they hardly know the difference between socialism and communism.
  
  Some Ghanaweb writers talk about "democracy" in reference to Nkrumah when they know next to nothing about the history as well as the contemporary history of democracy, the cultural diversities under which "democracy" operates across the world, pre-colonial African political institutions, etc. As a result, they resort to cheap analytic oversimplication of political science thinking that it reflects scholarly consensus. This can happen only on Ghanaweb. We will not let these detractors rest, though.
  
  Get well. I have not recovered from a brutal cold I had more than a month ago.
  
  Thanks for your kind words.

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• Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago

  Francis I enjoy reading your essays on Nkrumah but,trust me, you guys will achieve nothing if you don't dissociate yourselves from that Murderous Trokosi founded NDC. Rawlings wouldn't want to see the much needed resurrection ...
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  Francis I enjoy reading your essays on Nkrumah but,trust me, you guys will achieve nothing if you don't dissociate yourselves from that Murderous Trokosi founded NDC. Rawlings wouldn't want to see the much needed resurrection of fragmented pieces of the old CPP. That is the more reason why he hounded prof mills to death. We in the UP want to see a healthy competition between NPP KUFFOURS type of governance and that of CPP and not not what Asiedu Nketiah and Mahama administration are doing. Blame the Andy K's and the entire Trokosi block for making your work difficult and leave the 'mate me hos' alone for mistakes are bound to happen at least once in one's life time. Continue bashing Busia and Danquah is not a smart move especially as your goal is to help fulfill Nkrumahs legacy, thus, continental African Unity. Charity,they say, begins at home and me think we cannot get anywhere with the foolish hate laced divide and rule tactics of the Atinga-Trokosi alliance(courtesy Okoampah Ahoofe), the ndc.

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• warren 11 years ago

  usual rubbish

  usual rubbish

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• Abroquah 11 years ago

  "Chinese President Xi Jinping will use two pandas to break the ice and soften European opposition to a free-trade deal with China during a visit to Belgium which starts on Sunday. "Reuters= news.https://ca.news.yahoo.com/chin ...
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  "Chinese President Xi Jinping will use two pandas to break the ice and soften European opposition to a free-trade deal with China during a visit to Belgium which starts on Sunday. "Reuters= news.https://ca.news.yahoo.com/chinas-xi-turns-panda-diplomacy-seek-eu-trade-002601595--sector.html

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• Abroquah 11 years ago

  "Chinese President Xi Jinping will use two pandas to break the ice and soften European opposition to a free-trade deal with China during a visit to Belgium which starts on Sunday. "Reuters=

  "Chinese President Xi Jinping will use two pandas to break the ice and soften European opposition to a free-trade deal with China during a visit to Belgium which starts on Sunday. "Reuters=

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